Meanwhile, the British arrive in Coramantien to trade for the war captives whom Oroonoko sells as slaves.
due to their vast numbers, the colonists are unable to enslave them then must look elsewhere for slaves to figure on the sugar plantations–that is, they appear to Africa. Before introducing the first character, however, the narrator provides great detail about the colony and therefore the inhabitants, presenting first an inventory of multicolored birds, myriad insects, high-colored flora and exotic fauna, then an almost anthropological account of the natives with whom British trade and who seem to the narrator to be as innocent as Adam and Eve in “the Delaware of innocence, before man knew the way to sin.” British, she insists, live happily with the natives. During her wait, she has the chance to satisfy and befriend prince Oroonoko and his lovely wife, Imoinda. She is that the daughter of the new deputy-governor, who unfortunately died during the family’s voyage to require up his new post.
A young English woman, the nameless narrator, resides on Parham Plantation awaiting transportation back to England.
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